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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Bodies Bizarre and Beautiful

Posted May 07, 2009 12:00 AM by dstrohl

Commercial trucks tend to be the ultimate expression of function over form, as we saw in last week's SIA Flashback, but for a brief while, they used form as a function: to advertise their purpose and the wares inside. And some of the forms the trucks took were dashing and beautiful, if little recognized, as Rolland Jerry shows us in SIA #44, March-April 1978.

This week, we also included a two-pager on another form of streamlining, these the two Farman aerodynamic prototypes.

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05/08/2009 1:03 PM

I love em!

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